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  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  Where have I been? I haven't blogged since February 3. A lot has ... them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with ... efforts. Where are you in this exact very moment? Take a picture. Tell us

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  you can buy on Amazon for 7 cents each. You can find blue LEDs in any ... ! OLED Displays How can plastic become conductive? In materials science ... flexibility. In addition to conducting electricity, they can become transparent

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... about AI. Monday - 9/13 Before Class I wake up at 9am in the beautiful ... comfortably speak in Spanish without people judging me, especially since I'm not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I ... acknowledge it. Instead of getting up, I lie in bed, check my email, and read ... "getting to class exactly on time" down to a science; I can afford to waste a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  in my closet until I got annoyed at the exposed screws; I’m not sure if ... . The lion and the beaver are more recent: I got the lion overpriced at a zoo giftshop because I really, really wanted him, and the beaver was my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  super great at theory in Mechanical Engineering, I can say I know CAD and ... since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  encounter situations where crisp, compelling writing can express your feelings ... , always cut it out. Never use the passive where you can use the active ... in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  memories," he says. "I've been in these rooms hundreds of times, but I can ... first logged into the MIT server, I was completely awestruck. I took in ... the park where Bexley once stood; I had spent a blissful, sunny day

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  an amazingly framed short film, i discovered as we screened it in class ... frustrating and I can't do it any more. I quit." Pause. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I ... little sound effects where you need them. Adjust the hues in a scene to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  recommend. I met a girl from Germany who used Aupair in America, where the ... very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... I stayed with were very flexible, in that they wouldn't tell me when

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  spare time. Anastassia: “I can answer that counter-chronologically in Blog ... to Miami as I departed to see THE DALAI LAMA in his talk on ethics ... . Furthermore, I also participated in another form of dance, playing dodgeball, in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  reenactor like that one episode of Amazing Race 4 in Vienna. I took this ... another 2.20 ticket I saved myself from buying. On July 3rd, we had a ... valid hot dogs. Interestingly enough, in München I ordered the special

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  Building 18. There was no snow or rain to justify my fall. As far as I can ... time I was stuck in an airport overnight? The next day, I and 1,203 other ... . 170 were Haitian. 441 were Cuban. I love living in Miami. (I mailed my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delivery! "Ring delivery" is more like "ring takeout," actually, since they don't bring a brass rat…

  

  employers, and my family. All of them believed in me, and told me I can do ... Last weekend was crazy. Crazy good. So good, in fact, that I needed a ... buy your own. It weighs a lot on your finger, too! On days when I'm not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... barefoot to the dairy to buy a $2 ice block. I only realised that squirrels were real when I arrived in America. Even the night sky looks different

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  to sleep and wake up in a year. I can’t deal with all this. I am ... (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... topic no matter where you went: at home, at school, on the street, in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  easy combination to come by). In case you can't tell, I procrastinated ... 2014 sweatpants draped over it. They're COVERED in dirt. Last night, I ... ballgown is dangling from a ceiling pipe. It doesn't fit in my wardrobe; if I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  event called Splash, in which pretty much anyone can volunteer to teach a ... ’t mean that we can’t apply it in absurd, hilarious, or even impossible ... spent walking through one of new chapters in the book, which I won

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  /enjoyment in the work and what you're learning. Is that true? (I dearly hope it ... CPR and defibrillation can increase the chance of survival of someone in ... risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I have to ask: do people always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  two flavors, I actually did buy in Canada! I went home for the summer ... In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the ... flavors. In the US, you have like twenty. I am fully committed, when I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023